Lars, Jessica, Ashton & Gunnar: Ashton turns 7!!

Friday, January 20, 2012

Ashton turns 7!!

I still haven't figured out how to slow down time and these boys just keep getting bigger & bigger :(.

January 6, 2012...Wow we have a 7 year old!

Can't believe it!

We started out Ashton's special day with a trip to McDonald's for breakfast with Nana & Papa...

Then it was off to school for Ashton and home for us to make preparations for his first party.

I have to say that after last year's crazy party at firehouse (just LOTS of kids)...I had said that we were going to keep it simple this year and probably not do a party. Well that's no fun, and Ashton just wasn't really going for that idea, so what did we do this year?

Had two.

That really was not my intention, but that's how it worked out. Mostly because with a winter birthday and if we invite everyone we want to invite, there is just not enough room in our house! So we split it into two groups...Friday night we had family and our friends the Hansons, and the Villas over for cake and ice cream.

And then on Saturday morning we had a "pancakes & pajamas" party

(Here's the invite :)...

Back to Friday for a minute. Lars took the day off, so he actually got to take donuts to Ashton's class with me. It was fun...I love knowing that Ashton feels special on his birthday :)

Now back to trying to keep it simple. I tried to talk Ashton into cupcakes. No. Then I talked up the idea of a fun ice-cream cake from Coldstone. No. What he wanted was a Lego Ninjago cake (yellow cake, white frosting) made only by me. So I couldn't let him down.

Here is the final product.

I just couldn't get into the mood this year to do fondant or be super-creative with it, so I just put the boys' Ninjago guys on top...

...and decorated it with Legos and printed out the Ninjago sign so that everyone at least knew what it was supposed to be.

He loved it and that is all that matters.

Oh and Kelli and I made this guy :)

So we ate pizza, then opened presents...

Then sang to our birthday boy...

Make a wish!

Then had our cake and ice cream.

It was a fun night.

But our celebrating had only just begun.

We got up on Saturday and started getting stuff ready for our big breakfast.

Ashton and all of his neighbor buddies :)

Lars and his Dad did all of the cooking...

Chocolate chip pancakes, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and strawberries. It all turned out so good and ended up being such a fun idea for a party. The boys all came hungry and ate so well!